| Help starting a small business online. | | | | Basically, this involves signing up free as an affiliate for |
| I am frequently asked by people who are just starting | | | | companies like Amazon, Barnes and Noble or |
| out online if I would help them get started. The | | | | ClickBank. There are thousands of such companies. |
| following 3 things are the most confusing to them: | | | | Starting out, you don't have to gamble a penny. They |
| 1. Doing business on the internet is a whole new ball of | | | | handle everything including collection of money, |
| wax for anybody. Page rank is one term that people | | | | customer refunds and so on. You can't beat it. All you |
| have a hard time with. It has nothing to do with where | | | | have to focus on is selling. |
| it is on a page or in the list of pages. One of the | | | | 3. What should their site be about? What is selling |
| fellows that started Google has a last name of Page | | | | well? The thing to try to do here is to build a business |
| and he came up with a system to rate site pages as | | | | in something you know well, maybe even something |
| to how they relate to their keyword terms and so on. | | | | you are an expert in and run with that. Not only will you |
| This is what Page rank is. | | | | build a profitable business, you will have a ball doing it. |
| SERP's is another term that is confusing. What it | | | | Unless your passion is eighth century Viking toe nail |
| refers to is the Search Engine Reports Page. It is | | | | clippings or something like that, you will do well. Who |
| those pages that appear on your screen when you do | | | | knows, maybe there is a demand for those too? Find |
| a web search, listing usually 10 sites each. | | | | out. |
| 2. They have to sell something to make any money. | | | | Can you see where people who need help starting a |
| What should they sell? Will they have to get financing | | | | small business can be confused? If you are one of |
| to build an inventory and to store it and so on? I | | | | these, be kind and gentle to yourself. Many of us have |
| strongly urge people in the pushiest terms to go into an | | | | been where you are. A little research, trial and error will |
| affiliate business to start. Later, if they wish, they can | | | | take you into the winners' circle. |
| go into all this other stuff. | | | | |